Picture this, you are a cameraman and you find the perfect spot to cover the implosion of the Georgia Dome. You stream out your video live for 40 long minutes and the time has finally come. You hear the first boom and you see the building start to collapse. And then…a f*cking MARTA Bus pulls up in front of you to watch the demise of the sports stadium and you cannot see what is happening. Finally, the building is leveled and the &$$#0[3 moves out of your shot. Sadly, it is too late and you cannot get a redo. What do you do? If you are James Crugnale from the Weather Channel, you curse because there is nothing else you can do. Well that and cry. Which I would done both.
So a friend of mine, who was a photog in Atlanta, told me this would happened to her all the time. MARTA is notorious for getting in the way of newspeople’s camera shots.
When it comes to MARTA, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Goldie Taylor told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Given the potential dangers of bringing down the largest structure of its kind… If this is the biggest story, we’re really glad about that.” Although she did Tweet the cameraman a sincere apology in a bitchy fashion sort of way. And that is probably why when I when I lived there, I did not know anyone who took their crappy buses.
When it comes to the implosion, it was actually lame and I was very disappointed. I was expecting more for the take down of that eyesore. I hated looking at that building when I drove into work.
